A couple of days ago, Oliver Patsch and I took a road-trip to Horsham. We  were on our way to present a collaborative exhibition at the Horsham Regional Art Gallery. An artistic collaboration between a ceramicist and photo media artist who shared the same interest. The landscape. The photo media artist creating his imagery with dark and light, the ceramicist creating his imagery with flames and smoke. Different disciplines, same thinking.

Written to encourage the artist just setting out.

Another aspect we shared, although not at first obvious, where some interesting parallels in our work, which drew us together for this project in the first place. Different disciplines but similar skills.

Both of us started our artistic working careers from what most would call a disadvantage. A severe lack of funds. However in both cases this turned out to be a blessing and a defining feature of our work. Thanks to the nature of art there are no rules and thus it was easy to start from the premise of ‘anything is possible’. The limitations placed by circumstances also provided the originality. That, plus an attitude. Basically, both of us are influenced by very old methods of ‘making’ which, as a consequence, create a very strong skill base to our work  Also as a consequence, both of us came across the advantageous concept of  ‘the power of limits’.